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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

每一本书都是一句名言;每一所房子都是森林、矿山和采石场的报价单;每个人都是他祖先的语录。

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

即使在文学和艺术领域，也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反，如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次)，十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。

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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

无论一个人拥有多么丰富的格言，无论一个人的情绪多么好，如果一个人没有利用每一个具体的机会去行动，他的性格可能会完全不受影响，变得更好。

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Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

一旦你明白了这一点，你就能让你的房间充满活力;你可以和你的家人一起设计房子;给你的孩子一个花园;你可以工作的地方;美丽的露台，您可以坐在那里梦想。

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I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore.

我做过很多零工，但我想我可能会成为一名消防员，因为你可以看到你工作的结果。你到了那里，发现一所房子着火了。你走了，再也没有火了。

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There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

这里有一种基本的张力。有人说，我想把这片森林砍伐掉，把它砍成锯材，因为这对我来说是一件具有经济效益的事情。

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A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.

一本让我无聊到流泪的书忽视了人物塑造和散文的质量。

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Willows are weak but they bind other wood.

杨柳虽脆弱，却能缚住其他树木。

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Do one thing every day that scares you.

每天做一件让你害怕的事。

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